Sunday, April 12, 2015

Desert Dancer

Dancing is an expression of freedom. It is
the quintessential affirmation of life.Anyone who would prevent this beautiful art is vermin…the lowest form of
humanity.My opinion.

Director Richard Raymond’s Desert
Dancer is based on the true-life story of Afshin Ghaffarian (Reece
Ritchie), an Iranian student with a passion to dance, while living under an
authoritarian regime that forbid it.

Afshin formed a small, underground group of
dancers that, ultimately, felt the need to show their work to an audience.This necessitated going a hundred kilometers
out of Teheran into the desert for their performance…all this while being
sought by regime thugs.

About Me

Brian Porzak: I am a cinephile who likes to view films with a live audience. My taste runs the gamut, including indies, studio films, foreign films and most all genres. Because I see so many films, friends often ask me what to see. So, I thought I'd blog about what is worth seeing or not. As a writer/filmmaker myself, I hope to give a more uplifting perspective than the typical critic. Filmmaking is tremendously difficult. Just because some problems might exist in a particular work does not, necessarily, destroy its enjoyability and I think that is necessary to point out to would-be viewers.
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